Suomi.fi web pages include over 4,000 printable formsState and municipal public services are now
available through a single website. The Suomi.fi portal gives access to
various municipal and state services.
The portal contains e-services and forms, information links, information
packages, legislation, and news from different areas of public
administration.

The services on the portal are grouped under 14 different subjects. The front page also has shortcuts to ten of the most popular services and forms.
There are separate services for users of sign language and for the elderly.
Pages for senior citizens contain a fairly broad selection of
information for elderly people and their next of kin. The pages also
help those whose jobs put them in contact with seniors.

The portal includes thousands of
links to various services. It has more than 4,000 printable forms. The
forms and instructions linked with each of the various services are
available on the same page.
The portal brings together the services of all of Finland’s 342
municipalities and about 300 organisations of the state administration.

A new service account will be added to the pages later this year.
The service account will allow users access to electronic versions of
official decisions and other documents pertaining to themselves.
Opening the portal on Wednesday, Minister of Administrative and Municipal Affairs Tapani Tölli (Centre) said that the website had been set up to rationalise public administration and to reduce costs.

Tölli said that the present government
is promoting data management legislation which would include the
obligation to maintain compatibility of the data systems of public
administration.
The portal has been accessible already before Wednesday’s official opening. Suomi.fi online editor Mari Kervinen says that the use of the portal has increased rapidly.
In September about 300,000 people visited the pages, and about half of them used some document or other.